Keith Ansell Pearson questions the sexuality of Nietzsche and Jim Burns doubts the influence of bebop on Jackson Pollock. A.D. Harvey reveals the British Government's files on American writers. Donald McMaster's prescient story of a Guantánamo prisoner, and fiction by Simon Korner & Neil Powell. Poetry by John Hartley-Williams, Anthony Thwaite, Peter Porter, Richard Burns, John Mole & Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, & Tom Pickard's new ballad.

FICTION
Donald McMaster, 'In the Bowels of the Beast'
Simon Korner, 'Bungalows'
Neil Powell, 'My Huckleberry Friend'

POETRY
Alan Brownjohn, 'Trade-in'
Anthony Thwaite, 'A Crack of Air'
Peter Porter, 'Un Cadeu Très Macabre'
Daniel Weissbort, 'One Hypothesis'
Leonie Rushforth, 'Song for Carmen'
Steve Cullen, 'Gifts, Freely Given'
John Temple Finnegan, 'The Gamesters'
John Heath-Stubbs, 'The Return of the Cranes'
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, 'Asking the Bees'
Sarah Wardle, 'Flight'
Tom Crowther, 'Family'
Nicholas Murray, 'The Suicide'
Neil Ferguson, 'William Luke'
John Mole, 'This Moment'
Tom Pickard, 'she says I must be going'
Two sonnets by Richard Burns

FEATURES
Six photographs by John Minihan
Raymond Shorthouse, 'Poetic Rhythm & the Sonority of Being'
Two photographs of Bryan Winter
Jim Burns on abstract expressionism and the bebop myth
A.D. Harvey, 'British Government Files on American Writers'
Andy Croft, 'Off With Their Heads'

REVIEWS
Alexander Boot on Richard Pipes & Stephen Kotkin
Roger Caldwell on Mary Midgley
Fred Beake on David Bowman
Keith Ansell Pearson on Joachim Kohler & Nietzsche
Michael Bloch on Slina Hastings
Ian MacKillop on Mayakovsky & Victor Hugo
Alan Brownjohn on Stephen W. Delchamps & Gavin Ewart
John Whitworth on Humphrey Carpenter
Diana Hendry on Stuart Pickford, Jim Greenhalf, & Tulio Mora
John Greening on Gregory Woods, Jorie Graham, Selima Hill, & R.S. Thomas

Cover: Bryan Winter (1915-1975), 'Head in Green' & 'Boats in Heather' (oil on canvas)

Fred Beake. Poet, translator, critic. Aristophanes' Peace (University of Pennsylvania Press) & The Cyclops (Menard Press). He lives in Bath.
Michael Bloch's book Ribbentrop is to be re-issued by Abacus in 2003.
Alexander Boot publishes writings on politics and culture in Britain and the U.S.A.
Alan Brownjohn. The Cat Without Email, poetry, A Funny Old Year, novel, both appeared in 2001. He reviews for the Sunday Times and the TLS.
Jim Burns. Beats, Bohemians & Intellectuals: Selected Essays (Trent Editions 2000).
Richard Burns. Poet and translator. The Manager (Elliott & Thompson 2001).
Roger Caldwell writes for the TLS, Philosophy Now, PNReview, Acumen.
Andy Croft. Great North (Iron 2001). Writer-in-Residence at HMP Holme House, Stockton.
Tom Crowther is 25. He read English at Clare College, Cambridge.
Steve Cullen teaches economics and politics at Eton.
Neil Ferguson. Three novels, Putting Out (Hamish Hamilton 1988), Double Helix Fall (Abacus 1990), English Weather (Gollancz 1996). Poetry in Poetry Review, Honest Ulsterman.
John Temple Finnigan, born 1953, has written a long poem called Flag.
John Greening. Nine collections of poetry. He reviews for Poetry Review and the TLS.
A.D.Harvey. Sex in Georgian England (1994, p/b 2001), A Muse of Fire: Literature, Art & War (1998), Warriors of the Rainbow (2000), a novel. First collection of poems in 2003.
John Heath-Stubbs. His new book The Return of the Cranes is published by Carcanet in December.
Diana Hendry. Making Blue and Borderers (both from Peterloo), poetry.
Simon Korner. The Reader short story prize and the V.S.Pritchett Memorial Prize (2001).
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams lives in Gwent in south-east Wales. She has three collections of poems from Seren with a fourth, Greenland, due out in 2003.
Ian MacKillop is Professor of English at the University of Sheffield.
Donald McMaster lives in New South Wales. Olympic Modern Pentathlete 1964, 1968.
John Minihan , born 1946. William Burroughs called him 'a painless photographer'.
John Mole. Poet and jazz clarinettist. New & Selected Poems forthcoming from Peterloo.
Nicholas Murray's novel A Short Book about Love is published by Seren.
Keith Ansell Pearson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Tom Pickard lives in the North Pennine hills. He is writing a libretto for the composer John Harle and collaborating with the sex shop Coco De Mer on a project.
Peter Porter. Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and Forward Prize in 2002.
Neil Powell. The Language of Jazz (1997), Selected Poems (1998), both Carcanet.
Leonie Rushforth publishes poems, reviews, and essays in the literary press.
Reverend Doctor Raymond Shorthouse is an Anglican priest in Dorset.
Anthony Thwaite. A Move in the Weather is due from Enitharmon in 2003.
Sarah Wardle won Poetry Review's New Poet of the Year award in 1999.
Daniel Weissbort edits Modern Poetry in Translation. Letters to Ted published by Anvil.
John Whitworth. The Whitworth Gun (Peterloo 2002) is his eighth book of poems.
Bryan Wynter (1915-1975). Chris Stephens's Bryan Wynter was published by Tate Gallery Publishing in 1999.